Margaret Ashburner

Composer

Originally from Southern Ontario, Margaret Ashburner is now in demand
as a harpist in the Victoria community where she has been a regular guest with the University of
Victoria Symphony Orchestra and recently with the Aventa ensemble to perform the music of Gilles Tremblay.

Also an active composer, Margaret’s music has been read by the JACK
Quartet, Penderecki String Quartet, the Victoria
Symphony, Ensemble contemporain de Montréal and most recently by
the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Youth Orchestra during the Open Ears
Festival. Her work Small Rooms for solo harp is published with the Avondale
Press and the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Harp Syllabus.

She holds a BMus in composition from Wilfrid Laurier University where she studied harp with
Lori Gemmell, piano with Terry Kroetsch and
composition with Linda Catlin Smith and Peter
Hatch. Margaret is currently a postgraduate candidate at the University of Victoria where
she studies composition with Christopher Butterfield and harp with
Annabelle Stanley.